Toy chariot



i. A. SUNDQUiST.

Tov CHARIOT.

APPLICATIUH HLED NOV. 24. 1919.

1,3 09, Patented Jan. 25,1921.

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INVENTOR J/m ASupdymlsf BY ATTORNEY UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. SUNDQUIST, 0F GEOBGETOVTN TOWNSHIP, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CON- NEGTIGUT.

TOY GHARIOT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25,1921.

Application filed November 24, 15919. Serial No. 340,113.

T 0 all to hem it may con cern Be it known that 1, JOHN A. SUNDQUIST, a citizen of Finland, and a resident of the township of Georgetown, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Chariots, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to me chanical toys, and it appertains more especially to that class of devices which are mounted to roll over the surface of the ground, or a floor or other appropriate sup port, and operated thereon either by traction or oropulsion.

ne of the objects of the invention is to produce a device of the character described comprising figures arranged to move automatically ina plane transverse to the gen eral direction of travel followed thereby.

Another object is to provide a device of the nature set forth the structural design whereof will permit seclusion of its motionconverting members and thus protect the same from injury.

A further object is the provision of a device of the kind referred to wherein movable figures may be driven positively in unison from a pair of motion-imparting elements.

A still further object is the production of a device of the species mentioned composed of but few parts, of simple and durable construction, easily procured, and quickly assembled, as well as amenable to low cost of manufacture. 7

Other objects and advantagesof the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid. objects in view, the

invention consists of the novel combinations Figure I is a top plan view of this improved toy, some parts thereof being omitted II is a front elevation, partly in sec tion, of the same form of the device, a certain portion being broken away to show the interior construction;

Fig. III is a'view taken from the lefhand side of Fig. II, omitting some of the V grooved vertically, as at 6 and 7, and also horizontally at right angles thereto, as at 8. The openings or passageways resulting from the several bores or grooves may be formed in the opposed faces of the parts 5' and 5 aforementioned, conveniently onehalf in each. The wider vertical openings 6 and are spaced apart and disposed substantially 1n parallelism, while the horizontal passage 8 intersects them in their lower portions. 1

At their upper external edges, the said parts 5* and 5 of the frame are provided with rabbets 9 and 10, respectively, which when brought together as shown present a substantially straight and depressed face, indicated as a whole by the reference numeral 11. It is, understood that one-half of this rabbeted face appertains to each of the parts 5 and 5 Alined apertures 12 and 13 are provided across the above described rabbeted portions of the frame member. As illustrated, these apertures are arranged in pairs transversely of the member on both sides of a median plane bisecting the latter. The middle portion of the frame member is further bored through, substantially in the said plane, to

produce an opening 14, adapted to receive.

the inner end of a handle rod 15, where with the improved toy is manipulated.

. In the groove or passage 8 of the frame member is lodged an axle 18, composed pref erably of wire and formed with oppositelydirected offsetsl?) and 20, which constitute a pair ofcranks, respectively located so as to revolve centrally one in each of the vertical bores, passages, or openings 6 and 7 before mentioned. A rolling means is provided to support the frame member, which means may consist of a pair of wheels or rollers 21 and 22, mounted at the extremity their inner ends on hinge-pins 33 and 34:,

of the axle 18. These rollers operate to turn the axle and concomitantly impart r0 tation to the-cranks 19,20 thereof when the toy chariot is drawn or pushed over the grounds surface or along any particular runway that may be provided to display the same.

The wheels or rollers 21, 22 may be secured to the axlelS by any appropriate means. As illustrated in Fig. 11, such means may consist of righangular extensions 23 and 24, formed near the ends of the axle and lodged in cavities provided therefor in r the inner faces of the said wheels 'or rollers. From these extensions project pintle-like prolongations 25 and 26' of the wire, which are offset eccentrically with relation to the axle, but extend substantially in parallelism therewith. The outer extremities of the pintles or prolongations are forced radially inward, as at 27 and 23, toward the center of the wheels or rollers, into cavities provided in the exterior faces of the latter opposite the previously mentioned cavities for the riglit angular extensions 23 and 24:.

t will be understood that the wheels or rollers are confined and positively held be tween the extensions, 23, 2 1 and theoutwardly-disposed wire extremities 27, 28 respectively. The edges ofthe wire engaging the opposite cavities, taken in conjunction with the pintles 25, 26, serve to transmit'and convert the rolling motion ofthe wheels 21, 22 into rotation of the axle 18, and its cranks or offset portions 19, 20.

' Between the upper edges of the frame member 5, which constitute the opposed outer sides of the rabbets 9 and 10, are oscillatable elements 31 and 32, which may be in the nature of flaps or leaves pivotedat gudgeons or the like, entering or engaging the pairs of alined apertures 12 and 13, hereinbefore described. The hinge pins shown are bent on the outside of the rabbeted portions of the frame 5, in order to keep them from becoming dislodged. It is to be noted that the rabbets or either of them will afiord .a guide for each of the figure carryingelements during the oscillation thereof on the frame member.

On the surfaces of the flaps or leaves 31, 32 are carried representative characters or emblems, as A and B, which may consist of figures made oftin, card board or other approved material, suitably maintained in their assigned positions. The flaps or leaves pitmen constitute operative connections beoperable to impart motion Prior to fastening the frame parts 5 and 5* together by screws or nails, as at 39 for instance, the axle 18 and the thereto con nected members, namely, the wheels or rollers21, 22, and pit-men 35, 36, as also the oscillatable elements 31, 32, are placed in the respective positions that they are to occupy relatively to the horizontal passage 8, the vertical bores 6, 7 and the rabbets 9, 10.

Iotwithstanding that the elements 31, 32

have been shown as functioned to rise ontward or up from the ends of the frame, it is conceivable that the arrangement could. be reversed; and although a 133.1110 such ele inents appear in the illustration given, it is obvious that a greater or smaller number could be similarly mounted.

While a certain preferred embodiment of this device has been shown and described, it will be understood that changes in the form,

arrangements, proportions, sizes and details thereof may be made, without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Having described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim,

1. A movable toy comprising'a body, a figure on said body disposed in a plane transverse to the direction of travel thereof, and operating means located in the same plane for imparting motion to said figure. 2.-A movable toy comprising a body, a figure on the latter disposed in'a plane transverse to the direction of travel thereof, and means arranged in the same plane to said figure by movement of said body; i

3. A movable toy including a wheeled vehicle, figures arranged on the same in a plane transverse to the direction of travel thereof, and a power connection between the wheels of the vehicle and said figures situ-' ated in said plane whereby motion will be developed in the latter upon movement of the former. V

4:. A. movable toy of the character set forth, including a member elongated trans versely to its direction of motion, a similarlydisposed figure carrying element mounted so as to oscillate in the plane of said member, the sides of the figure-thereon being viewed in the line of advance or retraction,

rolling means supporting the member sub stantially at the ends thereof, and an operative connection between said means and said element.

5. A movable toy of the character set forth, including oppositely located rolling means, a member mounted edgewise between said means in a plane transverse to the line of travel followed thereby, a figure carrying element arranged to oscillate at the upper edge of said member intermediately of the rolling means within said transverse plane, and aconnection between the rolling means and the said figure carrying element whereby the latter will be caused to move upon rotation of the former.

6. A movable toy of the character set forth, including oppositely disposed rollers, a member mounted thereon affording a support extending intermediately of said rollers in a plane transverse to their direction of motion, a plurality of elements arranged to oscillate endwise opposite each other in said plane, figures carried by said elements viewed sidewise in the line of travel, and power transmitting connections between the elements and the rollers.

7. A movable toy of the character described comprising an elongated body, rollers beyond the ends of said body supporting the latter so as to travel in a line at right angles to its longitudinal dimension the said body having communicating passages therein, alined figure carrying elements on said body disposed longitudinally of the latter, and power transmitting means within said passages and connecting said rollers with said figure carrying elements.

8. A movable top of the character set forth including a supporting member provided with intercommunicating vertical and horizontal passages extending therethrough, figure carrying elements arranged to oscillate on said member in a plane transverse to the line of travel of the toy, rolling means for the member, and operative connections lodged in and passing through said passages transmitting power from said means to said elements.

9. A movable toy of the character set forth including a member arranged transversely to the course followed by the toy, said member having parallel vertically disposed openings and a horizontally extending channel intersecting the lower portions of the same, figure carrying elements mounted upon the member so as to oscillate in the plane thereof, a cranked axle rotatively received in said channel, pitmen in said openings operatively connecting the cranks of said axle with said elements, and rollers opposite the ends of the channel imparting motion to the axle.

10. A movable toy of the character set forth, including a body member disposed transversely to the line of travel of the toy, a

figure carrying element mounted on said body memberso as to oscillate in the plane of said body member, guiding means at the upper part of said body member serving to maintain the latter and said element in coacting relation, rolling means at the lower part of said body member serving to support the same, and means, for transmitting motion from said rolling means to said figure carrying element.

JOHN A. SUNDQUIST. 

